Why is it that sacking peons as fast and impersonally as possible makes you a strong, visionary, leader who is willing to make tough decisions; but sacking your CEO good and hard makes you a panicky dumbass?
Inferno(at least if true to its Plan9 from Bell Labs roots) is pretty much "more unix than unix".
Instead of unix's "everything is a file, except a bunch of special stuff", that is actually carried through. Also, there is a robust network filesystem included. By comparison to virtually everything else, we are talking crazy elegant manipulation of pretty much everything throughout an N node networked environment. It's really pretty cool.
Unfortunately, it is also "more unix than unix" in the sense that it is more obscure, less widely supported, and more nerds-only-need-apply than are conventional unix and unixlikes... It's too bad, really.
So, if I understand this correctly, I get the exciting chance to hand login credentials to a variety those accounts I deem important to some nascent.bomb outfit, whose TOS specifically says that it can change at any time, my responsibility to check(is there a trigger for that, by any chance?), and which currently doesn't make any mention of limitations on what they can do with those credentials(never mind what their eventual aquirerer might do...); but which is quite clear on just how hard I indemnify and hold them harmless pretty much no matter what?
It is unfortunate that the alleged brutalizing and violence-inciting tendencies of video games are somewhere between tepid and nonexistent.
Even the most black-hearted ISP would think twice about pissing off hordes of foul mouthed and odorous basement dwellers if a series of spree-killing reprisals were a serious risk...
In my somewhat limited(but rather painful) experience with attempting to use wifi as a serious connection, one of the issues that cropped up a lot was less with throughput, or with number of clients; but with client software behavior in the face of a glitch.
Dicking around at home and the wifi cuts out for a second? Reload the webpage and quit your whining.
Running your basic "enterprise" client configuration(documents directory is actually on a fileserver, authentication through AD, etc, etc.) and the wifi cuts out? Be prepared for frustratingly erratic appearances of apparently disappearing documents, authentication fails, not automatically reconnecting to the fileserver, Finder just twiddling its thumbs and thinking about infinity until that server either times out or comes back, etc, etc.
Even before any APs show up, you can start identifying the likely areas of sheer pain by using netem, switch jiggery-pokery, or just a $20 consumer AP and flicking your laptop's RF power switch: If your environment has client applications that don't play nicely if the network goes all to suck for a second or two from time to time, wifi deployment is going to be Fun.
Honestly, for most applications where wifi isn't a totally terrible idea(ie. heavily throughput dependent stuff), that would be the big focus of my testing(along with how useful the management tools and interfaces are). High throughput is far less valuable than stable connections.
Virtually all "enterprise" offerings do things(typically by having all the APs reporting back to a central controller [$$$ incidentally] and tune themselves in various ways) that don't violate the wifi spec enough to be incompatible with (most) boring old wifi devices; but which are beyond the scope of the standard.
Load balancing, automatic power level adjustment to avoid excessive overlaps or voids, triangulation of clients and nearby access points, and various other stuff that can be quite handy; but may or may not require exciting license add-ons for.
"Kate Nepveu, an assistant solicitor general, said the state realized the GPS tracking was intrusive, but Cunningham's pattern of misconduct and the difficulty of constant in-person surveillance justified the technique."
Yup, we knew that we had no business doing it; but he was a Bad Guy and doing our jobs is Hard. Cry, cry, pity me... Is there any sort of procedural abuse that one couldn't justify with exactly that line? Virtually everything we call "due process" is inconvenient for the prosecution, and I've never heard of somebody going after someone that they wouldn't at least say was guilty of misconduct...
As you note, with Thunderbolt showing up in places where swappable tranceivers are very unlikely to happen, it seems particularly unlikely that the interface will be going optical any time soon.
In various niches, there is a demand, backed up by actual money, for all kinds of typically copper interfaces over optical, VGA, PS/2, USB, serial, etc. However, because the markets are so small, you can't really buy any devices with optical interfaces for that, you just make do with proprietary adapters with a copper connector on each end, and the vendor's private magic going over fiber in the middle. Not inexpensive, often ugly, and frequently requires a wall-wart or two; but available.
I'd be totally unsurprised to see a Thunderbolt equivalent to these other oddball fiber extenders pop up soon enough, at a price point high enough that they'll always be rather exotic; but low enough that the people who really need to run a cable 50 meters through their flammable gas containment chamber won't flinch...
I suspect that, if made practical on a larger scale, this 3D printing will make variable-property concrete substantially more common, cheap, and swift to put up; but it deserves mention that the Roman architects who constructed the dome of the Pantheon actually used a similar strategy of progressively lighter aggregate mixes as they went further up the dome, resulting in a substantially lighter and more durable structure... A very cute trick that would be handy to see revived.
In addition to that, which is rather an important point, Emag geek said: "How about actually capturing and prosecuting drug dealers in the US."
Lumpy replied: "How about screw arrest... snipers just make their heads explode at 2000 yards."
This suggests that we are talking in the context of US based dealers, quite a few of which are citizens, were that relevant, and most of which would be potentially arrested on US soil. Even if it were remotely constitutional, the suggestion of domestic law enforcement being conducted on the basis of snipers(and 2,000 yards is full sniper territory, not cop-with-AR-15-rather-than-pistol or designated marksman stuff) executing shoot-to-kill orders in crowded urban areas is just insanity.
Even if we had perfected our evilometers to such a degree that summary execution without trial wasn't an issue, who would want their police force going all rainbow 6 on them at any moment?
I'd be inclined to suspect that they'd be weaseled around in some way, either a tortured technicality, or by having a real cop or two standing around, and criminalizing 'noncompliance with gate security agents', so that the gate security agents aren't technically doing any law enforcement; but you can still be arrested for not doing what they want...
I know that.exes have historically supported including both a DOS supported and a NT supported section(these days, the DOS supported portion is usually just a stub telling you "Don't even try; but at least I'm showing you this rather than crashing...".
Given the way that MS prefers software to be packaged and distributed, though, I'm not sure whether or not they would necessarily want a direct equivalent to the "fat binary".
MSI format software installers don't actually execute directly, they are handled by the Windows Installer system provided with the OS(and thus, presumably available in x86 or ARM depending on the OS version). Given the (sometimes dizzyingly baroque) support for conditionals, components, and assorted other behavior, building a "fat MSI" would be totally doable(and MS's dev tools will presumably start spitting them out soon enough) that can be double-clicked identically on either platform(since the platform's own Windows Installer component is actually what runs) and then just install the ARM or x86 version of the product inside according to the environment...
If the vendor simply must have a proprietary executable installer to click on, MS might well prefer to go the "Well, I hope you can handle copying files in.NET" route rather than catering to a practice that they don't much like anyway...
Rosetta mostly(no G5 specific, some other edge cases) supported PPC binaries on x86 Macs; but that solution only worked because(Apple's prior marketing hype aside) the x86s they switched to were brutally overpowered compared to pretty much any of the prior PPCs, with the limited exception of the top end, liquid-cooled, IBM-can-barely-manage-to-fab-them-at-this-clock-speed G5 towers...
"Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified 12/15/1791.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
I know that drugs are the root password to the constitution; but FFS...
Apropos of your sig: Since Intel is already active in some areas of networking hardware(in addition to their longer term R&D about optical chip interconnects) they probably already have a very good idea of what various high speed optical interfaces would cost. Their 10 Gig-E optical interface modules are off the shelf items today, and I'm assuming that they are continuing work in that vein to be ready for the next faster round of ethernet standards. I imagine that there are some differences between what Thunderbolt requires and what Ethernet requires; but Intel isn't exactly just pulling numbers from nowhere when they say that moving Thunderbolt to optical trancievers would be too expensive for the target market: they already sell fairly similar hardware, and even a horrible bandsaw accident wouldn't stop me from counting the world's supply of laptops with SFP+, XFP, etc. interface ports...
FYI: "Los Zetas", among the more competent and sociopathic of the current players, are drawn heavily from the ranks of the Mexican(and to a lesser extent other Latin American) special forces groups. Even some School of the Americas(sorry, "Institute for Intra-Hemispheric Cooperation") alumni.
Other than some pretty tepid Shining Path activity in Peru, left-wing militancy in Latin America just isn't that lively anymore. It's a mixture of apolitical profiteers and former rightwing state jackboots who realized that the money in the private sector is substantially better...
While "Thunderbolt" is essentially a PCIe 4x external cabling mechanism, rather than a more typical external interface like ethernet, it seems reasonable to assume(for the sake of getting some rough numbers) that the challenges of getting a Thunderbolt 10Gb/s optical connection working would not be less than the challenges of getting other optical 10Gb/s connections working(might be slightly more, if, say, PCIe is touchier about latency or something, might be slightly less if Thunderbolt never promised to support a cable more than 10 meters long; but ballpark here).
Conveniently, there exists just such a 10Gb optical interface: 10GigE. Even better, the optical portion is frequently broken out into a separate module(to allow for multiple different grades of tranceiver, depending on distance and fiber requirements), making it possible to price the optics package separately from the switch to which it attaches.
10GB/s optical XFP or SFP+ modules are, indeed, not all that cheap. Much cheaper than they were; but (at least the Intel ones that some rough retail-pricing showed) still easily as costly as some of the smaller planned "thunderbolt" peripherals...
The economics can go either way: the dogmatic insistence that private entities are always more efficient is tedious nonsense(especially when one is discussing the class of obligate parasites that are primarily efficient at landing contracts...); but there certainly are circumstances where they in fact are.
The issue that really gets to me, though, is the ugly little game of pretending that a tax-funded, legally-enforced, activity or institution is somehow magically non-government just because you are signing checks for contractors rather than employees. The "size" of a government is a function of its resource intake and the scope of its legal(or extralegal) power, not the percentage of its workforce that is hired directly vs. by intermediaries. Pretending otherwise tends to lead to corrupt and dishonest shell games, rather than actual debate about the legitimate scope of government.
The "solar" bit is pretty much a gimmick; but I suspect that the underlying technology will be something that Intel finds very handy indeed, for chips of a variety of power levels.
Apparently, Intel has been working on bringing down the Vcore as sharply as their process capabilities allow. Lower core voltage, substantially lower power consumption, all else being equal(as people overvolting their CPUs tend to find out quickly...) It remains to be seen if Intel will be able to do this cheaply enough to actually push their power use down across the board, or if this will end up being a cherry-picked-and-blessed-for-10x-the-price ultramobile and very high density compute thing only; but being able to shove Vcore down is a nice piece of process research.
Those responsible at Diginotar are unlikely to feel anything more than (possible) economic consequences. Based on the location of the MiTM attacks, their incompetence wasn't responsible for some penny-ante credit card scamming, it was employed to advance surveillance by a somewhat ideologically touchy state. It would be entirely within the realm of possibility that somebody is doing hard time right now because they fucked up...
Unfortunately, "Privatization" is typically used as a polite euphemism for getting the worst of both worlds. It is very rarely a synonym for "the state abandoning function X"; but rather for "The state hiring a contractor for function X" or (in the case of assets, rather than functions) "The state sweetheathearting off asset X"...
When somebody says "Privatize", you can usually expect that they are demanding that the public employees be fired; but that the function continue to be paid for by taxpayer money, and backed by whatever force of law it previously enjoyed, just now being wielded by the employees of whatever contractor scooped up the bid. At best, this is an improvement of degree(ie. if the prior employees were genuinely a mess and the new contractor is actually efficient at something other than landing contracts); but it is not an improvement of kind: it is still state agents, paid with public money, backed by force of law. The fact that they aren't those evil public-sector workers with their wicked unions and whatnot doesn't change that a bit.
Unless proven innocent by demonstrated presence of a spine and some affinity for actual freedom, anybody who wants to "privatize the TSA" should be treated in roughly the same way as those who have shepherded along the privatization of parts of the prison industry... Shockingly enough, when your "product" is incarceration, you turn all your vaunted-efficiency-of-the-private-sector toward moving more product... Should the TSA be sacked and replaced by SecuriDyne LLC, it is extremely unlikely that SecuriDyne will be any better an advocate for less, and less invasive, screening than the TSA is, why would they cut into their own market?
More to the point, isn't it interesting how losing money from "unauthorized" trades is a problem that crops up from time to time; but nobody who makes money on a trade is ever "unauthorized"?
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Why is it that sacking peons as fast and impersonally as possible makes you a strong, visionary, leader who is willing to make tough decisions; but sacking your CEO good and hard makes you a panicky dumbass?
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Inferno(at least if true to its Plan9 from Bell Labs roots) is pretty much "more unix than unix".
Instead of unix's "everything is a file, except a bunch of special stuff", that is actually carried through. Also, there is a robust network filesystem included. By comparison to virtually everything else, we are talking crazy elegant manipulation of pretty much everything throughout an N node networked environment. It's really pretty cool.
Unfortunately, it is also "more unix than unix" in the sense that it is more obscure, less widely supported, and more nerds-only-need-apply than are conventional unix and unixlikes... It's too bad, really.
So, if I understand this correctly, I get the exciting chance to hand login credentials to a variety those accounts I deem important to some nascent .bomb outfit, whose TOS specifically says that it can change at any time, my responsibility to check(is there a trigger for that, by any chance?), and which currently doesn't make any mention of limitations on what they can do with those credentials(never mind what their eventual aquirerer might do...); but which is quite clear on just how hard I indemnify and hold them harmless pretty much no matter what?
Sounds Awesome!
It is unfortunate that the alleged brutalizing and violence-inciting tendencies of video games are somewhere between tepid and nonexistent.
Even the most black-hearted ISP would think twice about pissing off hordes of foul mouthed and odorous basement dwellers if a series of spree-killing reprisals were a serious risk...
In my somewhat limited(but rather painful) experience with attempting to use wifi as a serious connection, one of the issues that cropped up a lot was less with throughput, or with number of clients; but with client software behavior in the face of a glitch.
Dicking around at home and the wifi cuts out for a second? Reload the webpage and quit your whining.
Running your basic "enterprise" client configuration(documents directory is actually on a fileserver, authentication through AD, etc, etc.) and the wifi cuts out? Be prepared for frustratingly erratic appearances of apparently disappearing documents, authentication fails, not automatically reconnecting to the fileserver, Finder just twiddling its thumbs and thinking about infinity until that server either times out or comes back, etc, etc.
Even before any APs show up, you can start identifying the likely areas of sheer pain by using netem, switch jiggery-pokery, or just a $20 consumer AP and flicking your laptop's RF power switch: If your environment has client applications that don't play nicely if the network goes all to suck for a second or two from time to time, wifi deployment is going to be Fun.
Honestly, for most applications where wifi isn't a totally terrible idea(ie. heavily throughput dependent stuff), that would be the big focus of my testing(along with how useful the management tools and interfaces are). High throughput is far less valuable than stable connections.
Virtually all "enterprise" offerings do things(typically by having all the APs reporting back to a central controller [$$$ incidentally] and tune themselves in various ways) that don't violate the wifi spec enough to be incompatible with (most) boring old wifi devices; but which are beyond the scope of the standard.
Load balancing, automatic power level adjustment to avoid excessive overlaps or voids, triangulation of clients and nearby access points, and various other stuff that can be quite handy; but may or may not require exciting license add-ons for.
"Kate Nepveu, an assistant solicitor general, said the state realized the GPS tracking was intrusive, but Cunningham's pattern of misconduct and the difficulty of constant in-person surveillance justified the technique."
Yup, we knew that we had no business doing it; but he was a Bad Guy and doing our jobs is Hard. Cry, cry, pity me... Is there any sort of procedural abuse that one couldn't justify with exactly that line? Virtually everything we call "due process" is inconvenient for the prosecution, and I've never heard of somebody going after someone that they wouldn't at least say was guilty of misconduct...
As you note, with Thunderbolt showing up in places where swappable tranceivers are very unlikely to happen, it seems particularly unlikely that the interface will be going optical any time soon.
In various niches, there is a demand, backed up by actual money, for all kinds of typically copper interfaces over optical, VGA, PS/2, USB, serial, etc. However, because the markets are so small, you can't really buy any devices with optical interfaces for that, you just make do with proprietary adapters with a copper connector on each end, and the vendor's private magic going over fiber in the middle. Not inexpensive, often ugly, and frequently requires a wall-wart or two; but available.
I'd be totally unsurprised to see a Thunderbolt equivalent to these other oddball fiber extenders pop up soon enough, at a price point high enough that they'll always be rather exotic; but low enough that the people who really need to run a cable 50 meters through their flammable gas containment chamber won't flinch...
I suspect that, if made practical on a larger scale, this 3D printing will make variable-property concrete substantially more common, cheap, and swift to put up; but it deserves mention that the Roman architects who constructed the dome of the Pantheon actually used a similar strategy of progressively lighter aggregate mixes as they went further up the dome, resulting in a substantially lighter and more durable structure... A very cute trick that would be handy to see revived.
In addition to that, which is rather an important point, Emag geek said:
"How about actually capturing and prosecuting drug dealers in the US."
Lumpy replied: "How about screw arrest... snipers just make their heads explode at 2000 yards."
This suggests that we are talking in the context of US based dealers, quite a few of which are citizens, were that relevant, and most of which would be potentially arrested on US soil. Even if it were remotely constitutional, the suggestion of domestic law enforcement being conducted on the basis of snipers(and 2,000 yards is full sniper territory, not cop-with-AR-15-rather-than-pistol or designated marksman stuff) executing shoot-to-kill orders in crowded urban areas is just insanity.
Even if we had perfected our evilometers to such a degree that summary execution without trial wasn't an issue, who would want their police force going all rainbow 6 on them at any moment?
The Anti-Pinkerton acts, and similar?
I'd be inclined to suspect that they'd be weaseled around in some way, either a tortured technicality, or by having a real cop or two standing around, and criminalizing 'noncompliance with gate security agents', so that the gate security agents aren't technically doing any law enforcement; but you can still be arrested for not doing what they want...
I know that .exes have historically supported including both a DOS supported and a NT supported section(these days, the DOS supported portion is usually just a stub telling you "Don't even try; but at least I'm showing you this rather than crashing...".
.NET" route rather than catering to a practice that they don't much like anyway...
Given the way that MS prefers software to be packaged and distributed, though, I'm not sure whether or not they would necessarily want a direct equivalent to the "fat binary".
MSI format software installers don't actually execute directly, they are handled by the Windows Installer system provided with the OS(and thus, presumably available in x86 or ARM depending on the OS version). Given the (sometimes dizzyingly baroque) support for conditionals, components, and assorted other behavior, building a "fat MSI" would be totally doable(and MS's dev tools will presumably start spitting them out soon enough) that can be double-clicked identically on either platform(since the platform's own Windows Installer component is actually what runs) and then just install the ARM or x86 version of the product inside according to the environment...
If the vendor simply must have a proprietary executable installer to click on, MS might well prefer to go the "Well, I hope you can handle copying files in
Rosetta mostly(no G5 specific, some other edge cases) supported PPC binaries on x86 Macs; but that solution only worked because(Apple's prior marketing hype aside) the x86s they switched to were brutally overpowered compared to pretty much any of the prior PPCs, with the limited exception of the top end, liquid-cooled, IBM-can-barely-manage-to-fab-them-at-this-clock-speed G5 towers...
"Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified 12/15/1791.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
I know that drugs are the root password to the constitution; but FFS...
Apropos of your sig: Since Intel is already active in some areas of networking hardware(in addition to their longer term R&D about optical chip interconnects) they probably already have a very good idea of what various high speed optical interfaces would cost. Their 10 Gig-E optical interface modules are off the shelf items today, and I'm assuming that they are continuing work in that vein to be ready for the next faster round of ethernet standards. I imagine that there are some differences between what Thunderbolt requires and what Ethernet requires; but Intel isn't exactly just pulling numbers from nowhere when they say that moving Thunderbolt to optical trancievers would be too expensive for the target market: they already sell fairly similar hardware, and even a horrible bandsaw accident wouldn't stop me from counting the world's supply of laptops with SFP+, XFP, etc. interface ports...
FYI: "Los Zetas", among the more competent and sociopathic of the current players, are drawn heavily from the ranks of the Mexican(and to a lesser extent other Latin American) special forces groups. Even some School of the Americas(sorry, "Institute for Intra-Hemispheric Cooperation") alumni.
Other than some pretty tepid Shining Path activity in Peru, left-wing militancy in Latin America just isn't that lively anymore. It's a mixture of apolitical profiteers and former rightwing state jackboots who realized that the money in the private sector is substantially better...
While "Thunderbolt" is essentially a PCIe 4x external cabling mechanism, rather than a more typical external interface like ethernet, it seems reasonable to assume(for the sake of getting some rough numbers) that the challenges of getting a Thunderbolt 10Gb/s optical connection working would not be less than the challenges of getting other optical 10Gb/s connections working(might be slightly more, if, say, PCIe is touchier about latency or something, might be slightly less if Thunderbolt never promised to support a cable more than 10 meters long; but ballpark here).
Conveniently, there exists just such a 10Gb optical interface: 10GigE. Even better, the optical portion is frequently broken out into a separate module(to allow for multiple different grades of tranceiver, depending on distance and fiber requirements), making it possible to price the optics package separately from the switch to which it attaches.
10GB/s optical XFP or SFP+ modules are, indeed, not all that cheap. Much cheaper than they were; but (at least the Intel ones that some rough retail-pricing showed) still easily as costly as some of the smaller planned "thunderbolt" peripherals...
The economics can go either way: the dogmatic insistence that private entities are always more efficient is tedious nonsense(especially when one is discussing the class of obligate parasites that are primarily efficient at landing contracts...); but there certainly are circumstances where they in fact are.
The issue that really gets to me, though, is the ugly little game of pretending that a tax-funded, legally-enforced, activity or institution is somehow magically non-government just because you are signing checks for contractors rather than employees. The "size" of a government is a function of its resource intake and the scope of its legal(or extralegal) power, not the percentage of its workforce that is hired directly vs. by intermediaries. Pretending otherwise tends to lead to corrupt and dishonest shell games, rather than actual debate about the legitimate scope of government.
The "solar" bit is pretty much a gimmick; but I suspect that the underlying technology will be something that Intel finds very handy indeed, for chips of a variety of power levels.
Apparently, Intel has been working on bringing down the Vcore as sharply as their process capabilities allow. Lower core voltage, substantially lower power consumption, all else being equal(as people overvolting their CPUs tend to find out quickly...) It remains to be seen if Intel will be able to do this cheaply enough to actually push their power use down across the board, or if this will end up being a cherry-picked-and-blessed-for-10x-the-price ultramobile and very high density compute thing only; but being able to shove Vcore down is a nice piece of process research.
Those responsible at Diginotar are unlikely to feel anything more than (possible) economic consequences. Based on the location of the MiTM attacks, their incompetence wasn't responsible for some penny-ante credit card scamming, it was employed to advance surveillance by a somewhat ideologically touchy state. It would be entirely within the realm of possibility that somebody is doing hard time right now because they fucked up...
For values of "security" that include "PR", I have no doubt that it will...
Unfortunately, "Privatization" is typically used as a polite euphemism for getting the worst of both worlds. It is very rarely a synonym for "the state abandoning function X"; but rather for "The state hiring a contractor for function X" or (in the case of assets, rather than functions) "The state sweetheathearting off asset X"...
When somebody says "Privatize", you can usually expect that they are demanding that the public employees be fired; but that the function continue to be paid for by taxpayer money, and backed by whatever force of law it previously enjoyed, just now being wielded by the employees of whatever contractor scooped up the bid. At best, this is an improvement of degree(ie. if the prior employees were genuinely a mess and the new contractor is actually efficient at something other than landing contracts); but it is not an improvement of kind: it is still state agents, paid with public money, backed by force of law. The fact that they aren't those evil public-sector workers with their wicked unions and whatnot doesn't change that a bit.
Unless proven innocent by demonstrated presence of a spine and some affinity for actual freedom, anybody who wants to "privatize the TSA" should be treated in roughly the same way as those who have shepherded along the privatization of parts of the prison industry... Shockingly enough, when your "product" is incarceration, you turn all your vaunted-efficiency-of-the-private-sector toward moving more product... Should the TSA be sacked and replaced by SecuriDyne LLC, it is extremely unlikely that SecuriDyne will be any better an advocate for less, and less invasive, screening than the TSA is, why would they cut into their own market?
More to the point, isn't it interesting how losing money from "unauthorized" trades is a problem that crops up from time to time; but nobody who makes money on a trade is ever "unauthorized"?